He will have recognized, ere breath be spent

And speech at end, how much that 's good in man,

And generous, and self-devoting, makes

Monsieur Léonce Miranda worth his help;

While sounding to the bottom ignorance

Historical and philosophical

And moral and religious, all one couch

Of crassitude, a portent of its kind.

Then, just as he would pityingly teach

Your body to repair maltreatment, give